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Won't those characters show up wrongly when you expect to see UTF-8 characters, then? I don't really understand. Let's say I have ÿ, \xFF. I assume that character has some other byte representation in UTF-8. But how is that byte represented in UTF-8? Do you understand what it is that I don't understand?

I'm assuming all mp3-readers auto-detect encoding, so there's no "expecting to see UTF8" -- if you see UTF8, you see it and decode it as such, otherwise you assume it's something else. Remember, pretty much only UTF8 looks like UTF8.

Or: if mp3s have an explicit settign that says what encoding something is, then presumably there's no guesswork involved at all.